Dolphins & Disneyfication
Many people go to Lovina Beach in Bali for just one reason: to see the dolphins at sunrise. I will admit that this was a major draw for the two […]
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The Last Kampong Standing
Last weekend, Prescott and I visited Lorong Buangkok, the only remaining kampong (village) on the main island of Singapore. The cab dropped us off at 7 Lorong Buangkok, a short […]
Have a Nice Home!
Roughly 85% of Singapore’s population lives in government housing called HDB (“Housing and Development Board) flats, which usually come in the shape of big blocky towers that look something like […]
Happy Labour Day!
Singapore celebrates Labour Day on May 1. This public holiday was started in 1960 just after the rise to power of the People’s Action Party (still the ruling party on […]
Tromping Through Taipei
Taipei has great food and plenty to see, but it is not an especially attractive place. Most of the buildings in the city went up between the 1950s and the […]
Serving Singapore
At the age of eighteen, every young man in Singapore must serve in the Singapore Armed Forces through a program called National Service. This makes Singapore one of about twenty-five […]
Visiting My Son
For our last morning in Vietnam, Dad, Prescott, and I headed out to My Son Sanctuary, a collection of Hindu temples built between the 4th and 13th centuries by the […]
Capitalist Communism
Vietnam remains a communist country (for those who don’t remember their history classes: the US lost the war, the North Vietnamese Army took control of the South, the country was […]
Heaven, Hell, and The Here & Now
Dad and I visited Chinatown a few days ago, where one of the first things we saw was his given name — Bliss — repeated over and over just above […]
Going Green
Nina, Nelson and I started our last day in Bali at Ubud’s Sacred Monkey Forest. Here, hundreds of semi-tame long-tailed macaques swing through the trees and — more often — […]
